In this Year in Film and Music special edition, you'll hear from local writers and musicians about their year. We'll take a look at ambitious movies with inconclusive endings. You'll learn about the loss of two seminal local music venues, and much more.

The good news for political conservatives
— they finally have a somewhat relevant musical act on their side now!
The bad news? It’s Korn. With enough paranoid hyperbole to make even
Glenn Beck say, “Uh, that’s a little nutty,” Davis told Billboard
that Korn’s new song “Illuminati” was inspired by America’s President,
who he calls an “illuminati puppet.”